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Mesoscale Discussion 1950
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 16, 2015, 2:51 PM MST for 4 states. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 16, 2015, 2:51 PM MST (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2015, 4:45 PM MST
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties
Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 12:00 PM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 8 hr |
| Nov 16, 11:44 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 16, 12:58 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 16, 2:34 PM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 16, 4:20 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 8 more | 115 min |
| Nov 16, 4:56 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Meade, Seward | 94 min |
| Nov 16, 1:31 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 24 more | 59 min |
| Nov 16, 4:50 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 10 more | 55 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Texas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Kansas, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Oklahoma, 2015Every mesoscale discussion in 2015
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.